Circle the Bears’ preseason game against the Cleveland Browns at Soldier Field on Aug. 15. 

The Bears will have “a good idea” of their roster by that point.

Or that’s what they’re hoping for. 

Coach Ben Johnson said as much before the offseason program ended.

“We’ll have a good idea about halfway through training camp and probably going into that Cleveland game,” Johnson said in early June. “We’ll have had a number of padded practices and usually the cream rises to the top once it turns into that. Guys will naturally rise, some guys will fall. It won’t take too long.

“Last year’s a good example. We had a left tackle battle that kind of went the length and plus some. So hopefully that’s not the case. You don’t like that; you like to have a little clarity earlier on so that you can go into Week 1 feeling pretty settled on every spot. But we’ll do whatever it takes – as long as these competitions take to have some clarity, we’ll do that.”

Here is my first attempt at predicting the Bears’ 53-man roster with practices beginning for training camp on Wednesday. 

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